Camp Ruby Lake: The Blood Moon

We did this room as a triple date with our friends! It was a high quality room for sure, but was a little chaotic with our amount of people when it came to more intricate / detail oriented puzzles. The story worked well and the last thing we had to do to complete the room was a total surprise and we all were so hyped up about it!

Amazing room with lots of amazing puzzles that all work consistently, only had one section that caused a real struggle with being overly physically difficult.

Fun room! Relatively easy, flows well

Deadline Escape Rooms are at their best when they are more mechanical than technical. I have done 4 of their rooms so far. Freak show and Dead silence are the best rooms in deadline. They are both very mechanical and not technical. This room is a weird blend of technical and mechanical. To be fair, I have never done a two game room. But it’s weird to have props from two games in the same room. It makes the room weirdly empty. The lighting and ambience music was off. It should be creepy but it’s not. Some of their clues were a stretch especially at the end of the escape. There was a significant technological glitch. Multiple times the gm did not answer when We asked for a clue. Overall this room needs some work to work out the kinks.

We played both Camp Ruby Lake stories and Blood Moon was far more enjoyable than Lady of the Lake. There was a good mix of puzzles and I felt the story was more cohesive than the other game. The puzzles were also well incorporated into the theming. We did run into a malfunction (a key dropped before it should have). The GM indicated this happens pretty frequently so they definitely need to rework that mechanism.

This might be one of my all-time favorite rooms here at Deadline! What a great experience we had. It was both challenging but super engaging. There was a great mix of mechanical puzzles and technology based puzzles. The room itself was super well made and it has a spooky atmosphere that made me feel like I was at a very eerie summer camp. The finale of this room is super fun too, so be sure to do your best to get to the very end!

Deadline does a solid job with all of their rooms. They now have two rooms that can be played two different ways (Noir and Camp Ruby) and I’m still not sure how I feel about it as you get the same set for two rooms and have to ignore a lot of things in the room. Both stories are very lock and key heavy and could use a bit more signposting. I feel that Witch Doctor and Freakshow are still the two best rooms here, but these are solid rooms and worth doing.

Our team of three finished this with a decent chunk of time to spare (about 10 minutes). The puzzles were a bit more random and less woven into the story than Lady of the Lake, and one in particular would benefit from a bit more signposting and refinement. That said, the room works, and it is one I would recommend. It is a bit combo and key lock-heavy, but the pacing keeps things moving, and there’s a decent amount of variety. The finale is fun. The surprise is somewhat spoiled by light leaking from the end set piece, making its location obvious from the start. Once we had the final prop, we actually walked over and waited for it to trigger. A fix wouldn't be difficult, and the payoff is worth protecting. Immersion—4.5 Puzzles—3.5 Story—3.5

Duuuuude these rooms are 🔥🔥🔥

Wow! This room was so much fun. The team at Deadline has done it again. The puzzles were really creative, some requiring us to really think and others needing more cooperation and communication. We needed 2 hints during our session but the hints allowed us to think and solve accordingly. There were so many cool puzzles. We had a blast.